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MAGISTRATES & OPERATION BLACK VOTE

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  22. Jan. 2010. – 13:41:24 In our country there are some who say that all appointed officials whether they are school governors, members ...

PERJURY AND THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

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  21. Jan. 2010. – 12:01:21 It`s not very often that a charge of Perjury follows from proceedings at a Magistrates` court. But for a Mr Pl...

TRULY THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE CIVIL SERVICE ASYLUM

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  21. Jan. 2010. – 11:17:54 The security of magistrates across Norfolk has been compromised after their personal contact details were mist...

ARNDALE CENTRE CRIME; ARNDALE CENTRE COURT

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 20. Jan. 2010. – 14:35:42  At various times in the 650 year old history of the institution of local Magistrates the post itself has been br...

BLOWING A TRUMPET FOR MAGISTRATES

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  19. Jan. 2010. – 12:42:26 The higher the public profile and the greater the responsibility the more an individual has to jump the hurdle...

TO CAUTION OR NOT TO CAUTION? THAT IS THE CHOICE

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  17. Jan. 2010. – 17:05:37 Much has been made of the supposed caution given to "TV personality" Myleene Klass. Whether or not ...

A STRANGE APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT

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  17. Jan. 2010. – 17:05:37 Quoted below is a report published today in the Huddersfield Examiner Cans of beer seized from a Huddersfield sh...

UNFORGETTABLE COURT MOMENTS

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 14. Jan. 2010. – 12:21:44  Over the years the utterings of those in court, officers as well as defendants, can stretch one`s tolerance but ...

NOT JUDGE & JURY BUT JUDGE OR JURY

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  12. Jan. 2010. – 15:04:26  In 1973 in Northern Ireland at the height of "the troubles" Diplock courts were established. In these...

LOCAL COURT REPORTS ARE A THING OF THE PAST

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  11. Jan. 2010. – 13:21:49 "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done." This well known comment was made b...

ENGLISH LEGAL PRACTICE OR THE TALIBAN`S VERSION OF LAW?

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  09. Jan. 2010. – 12:12:24 There is a simple question to be answered which is the basis of today`s observations. And that question is wheth...

ONE FINE FOR HARIET HARMAN {THEM} AND ONE FOR US

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  08. Jan. 2010. – 14:30:02 It is perhaps unwise to comment on particular cases in the public eye particularly when full knowledge is unav...

REDUCE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR OFFENDERS

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  06. Jan. 2010. – 14:49:22 Some years ago sitting in a court room of a small town in America`s Deep South I witnessed two chained up misc...

VICTIM SURCHARGE

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  03. Jan. 2010. – 15:53:15 It seems to this observer that the government with grand owl Gordon on the top branch has made himself more of a...

LONDON BUSES AND FARE DODGERS

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  24. Dec. 2009. – 12:48:23 When a convicted murderer is released early from his/her sentence owing to doubts about his/her guilt we all r...

DECRIMINALISATION OF HARD DRUGS

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  21. Dec. 2009. – 10:12:02 Today`s observations are not meant as a root and branch investigation into a statistical analysis of all the a...

THEY ARE STILL THREATENING TO CUT OFF YOUR ELECTRICITY!

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  19. Dec. 2009. – 11:40:29 We hear a lot about "Human Rights" these days. I am not referring to our rights as human beings but ...

VIGILANTE JUSTICE OR FAILURE OF POLICE PRIORITIES? DO WE NEED LOCAL POLICE FORCES TO BE LOCAL?

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  17. Dec. 2009. – 10:50:32 Making headlines a couple of days ago a father and son, law abiding citizens both, received not inconsiderable...

IS THIS LABOUR`S THIRD WAY? GUILTY,NOT GUILTY OR NOT YET PROVEN

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  14. Dec. 2009. – 14:48:05 Taking a very broad view it could be argued that the Scots have shown an enlightenment legally and otherwise c...

SENSE AND SENTENCE ABILITY

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11 Dec. 2009. – 15:32:56 Thankfully a majority of the population still hasn`t found itself on the PNC or Police National Computer, one of th...

GET REAL ABOUT CO-HABITATION;IT`S NOT LIKE MARRIAGE

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  10. Dec. 2009. – 16:44:22 Lord Justice Munby, chairman of the Law Commission, was reported in The Times this week [link below] as wishin...

HAVE THE LAST 12 YEARS BEEN BENEFICIAL TO LIBERTY?

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Since 1997 although many good people disagree we have been subject to a "nanny knows best" basis of much legislation. Several Lord...

DOES DARWINISM APPLY TO A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?

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 28. Nov. 2009. – 12:33:21  It was Charles Darwin one hundred and fifty years ago who postulated that for living things the world is as it i...

DOES THIS GOVERNMENT REALLY WANT TO RETAIN THE OFFICE OF MAGISTRATE?

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27. Nov. 2009. – 13:06:39 Over 90% of criminal cases in this country are undertaken from plea to sentence at the Magistrates` Courts. For ov...

ACPO AND PROPOSED POLICE RESTRUCTURING

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 23. Nov. 2009. – 12:13:02   Sir Hugh Orde, president of ACPO wrote recently in The Times with his recommendations for a restructuring of po...